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Exactly agreed, and because my inclination is to say "I've never used this in previous jobs and will never use it here", I don't think it's useful for me to be
by StavrosK 6y ago
Exactly agreed, and because my inclination is to say "I've never used this in previous jobs and will never use it here", I don't think it's useful for me to be interviewing for jobs.
A friend of mine, when asked to implement an AVL tree, actually asked an interviewer when the last time he had to implement an AVL tree on the job was. He wasn't hired.
- ccajas 6y agoThey must be willing to eat their own dog food or else the question won't make any sense for the interview. The department should run the interviews through their own employees first. If some questions cause an "interview anti-loop" (a set of other employees S who would not hire E) it's time to revise those questions. Revise and rehearse these practice interviews within the department, and do it blind, until all of S are willing to "hire" each other for their respective roles.
- monksy 6y agoI've never had this prep for interviewing people. Most of the time you see the resume a few days before. They may say a few things "don't say this don't say that". (hr) Most companies take the rejection as a point of pride. "We've rejected 100s of candidates."
- bananaface 6y agoAsking you to visualise & manipulate a novel data structure you don't have practice with is a feature, not a bug. It's a specialised IQ test.
- StavrosK 6y agoAnd what is asking you to reinvent on the spot an algorithm that took scientists years to come up with?
- bananaface 6y agoVery stupid, and shows the interviewers don't understand the point of the process either. I don't like the structure, I think it's very flawed, but asking you to do something you do regularly defeats the purpose.